miserable ageing chat - no fuckers welcome

[NoahDear]

only us

I was recommending them on account of their comfort value

Looked v. good on friend too though, she wore with skinny jeans. She is 40 too. I was impressed.

dilly I am chanelling you

Yes, those boots - it's the kitchen maid look

Me, I'm aiming for parlourmaid

, I'v ebeen talking to a friend about aging this weekend. (Well, not all weekend. That would be a sorry state of affairs.) But we are overlooked, overlooked these days. And we don't like it. And we are even older than Noah.

How has this thread turned into a boot thread as well?

grey hair started at 16 for me.
the odd white pube about 6 yrs ago (just after dd was born)

I also have one grey eyelash.

oh and my teeth are falling out. i am 40.

I was a very bad becoming 40 person, and reading this thread am really upset cos i just realised I am going to be 41 next. Hadn't thought about that, oh bollocks.

A grizzly old boot thread. Crikey, I could find better boots than that.

It's a thread for old boots, not about boots

I like you when you chirp 100

am leaving this thread, as have just realised am fucker.

Feel positively ebullient having read the other posts. And not a grey nor chin hair to be found. Woo hoo!

Only an old boot would wear that pair of Dick van Dykes

Just you wait, Letthemeatcake

Since ds, I have developed hollows under my eyes which make me look haggard and i'm not even 39 yet!

hahahaaa ltec you are going to have a full beard by xmas.

i was ridiculously pleased today when checkout woman in waitrose called me dear rather than madam.

I have the hollows! And nothing solves them, no amount of concealer, make up. they are like dips in the bone, like shelves. I loathe them.

i am thinking of going to a shop and asking a nice lady to make me over.
KM, it's shu uemura. not tweezerman, just ignore anyone who tells you that tweezerman are good, they're not. too sharp.

I had my last DC (an accident) at the age of 43. Many people reassured me that I wasn't too old to have another baby.

However, after being short-sighted for 30 years my sodding eyes then decided to twat me from the other direction and I have now become long-sighted as well.

Now behold! the old dear holding the baby food at arms' length in the supermarket trying to read the microscopic ingredients.

It's not the granny, oh no . . . 'tis I, the Mummy. Who is not too old to have a young baby. Allegedly.

Thank you for the comfort, balloon. At least I don't look like my kids' granny.

CybilLiberty, so glad I am not alone! I need to have the disposable income I had pre ds when I could splash out on the best makeup etc to try to disguise them (whether in vain or not!) Body Shop concealer (Touche eclat equivalent) is shit and I may as well not bother!

onehundred - thank you for the link.

I kind of like them but they are a bit scary in a Jackboot kind of a way.

Not sure if that is just the price or not. I was thinking of spending a little less - like half as much.

And I am also concerned, since they go so far up the calf that I wouldn't be able to do them up. Did I mention being able of calf as well? Probably not, didn't want to destroy the image that I am a goddess.

Actually, looking at them again, they are growing on me. I think they would be good.

What do we think of these? Too old? Too young? Too Clarks? Just too yucky?

They are so clarks, nieceie

Niecie, prefer those in the brown

Sazzer, I use boots no 7 version of touche and kind of paste it onto the shelf in the vain hope of relecting some light or some such shit.

By the way, I do agree that our age group is over looked. Where am I supposed to shop if I don't have a load of money to spend? I can find expensive clothes aplenty but for the ordinary, slightly broke middle aged woman what is there out there?

Should I just be buying investment pieces? At my great age, would I even get my money's worth!?

I am into these